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Information Services Delivery Training Committee

ISD Training Committee
Meeting Minutes
March 14, 2013
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Porter 428

Present
Zsuzsanna Lancsak, Kathy MacDonald (chair), Judy McTaggart, Carol Steele (recorder), Jonathan Sutherland

Regrets
Connie Kovac-Hill

1) Approval of minutes of February 28, 2013
Approval of minutes was deferred.

2) Additional agenda
None

3) Business arising
None

4) Retreat 2013

a. Sessions:

Repositories: feedback from Pascal, Sandra, and Kathy S. is that digital repositories, data curation tools, and digital media management tools together are too much to cover in one hour; instead, they will talk about repositories only, with examples on our campus and others. Due to Pascal’s schedule this session will take place either in morning or early pm. Carol to convene.

Petting Zoo: Kathy emailed proposed session to Carl and is waiting to hear back.
ACTION: Kathy will book a meeting with Jonathan and Simon to plan the session.

Take Five: Campus Connections: Jane will invite student services staff et al and organize the session; Judy will convene on behalf of ISD Training Committee.

What do patrons ask when they know nobody’s listening: Susan will convene this session presented by Judith Logan and Michelle Spence, UoT.
ACTION: Kathy will ask for budget to cover their transportation expenses.
ACTION: Kathy will ask Judith & Michelle for description of their session and best time.

Time slots for sessions as follows:
9:30-10:30 am
10:45-11:45 am
12:00-1:00 lunch
1:15-2:15 pm
2:30-3:30 pm

Flyer can be created as soon as session descriptions are finalized.
ACTION: Carol to create flyer.
ACTION: Judy to send out “hold the date” and invitations.

Connie will organize lunch; budget is $400.
ACTION: Jonathan will give the spreadsheet of people from last year to Judy.
ACTION: Susan will distribute flyer to people in Porter (ISR incl. Geospatial, ILL, Cataloguing, Special Collections as per checklist)
ACTION: Jonathan will distribute flyer to people in Davis ISR.
ACTION: Jonathan will create evaluation forms.
ACTION: Kathy to provide jam to presenters.
ACTION: Judy will organize Porter Information Desk coverage for the day; Kathy will ask Martha to organize coverage at Davis.

The Committee members will give some thought to a theme title for the Retreat.

5) Reference Service Competencies recommendations

Document was discussed and will be communicated with Davis ISR department head.

6) Spotlights/Training Sessions

a. Recent Spotlights

i. Biology Images Library, March 8, 2013
Attendees: 8
Feedback: 4
1. Was the session what you were hoping for?
Yes: 4
No—please explain: 0
2. How would you rate the session?
Very helpful: 4
Helpful: 0
Not helpful: 0

ii. Planning and Evaluating Roving Reference, Education Institute, March 13, 2013
Participants: 16
Feedback: 11
1. Was the session what you were hoping for?
Yes: 9
No—please explain: 0
Didn’t answer: 2
2. How would you rate the session?
Very helpful: 1
Helpful: 10 (1 somewhat helpful)
Not helpful: 0

It was suggested that we hold off registering for any more Education Institute webinars until the audio problems are fixed. The registering mechanism is also problematic.

b. Upcoming sessions:

We will use Outlook Calendar to announce future sessions.

i. E-CPS (Shannon): Jonathan to convene.
ACTION: Jonathan will ask Shannon to pick from these available dates-- Apr 5, May 3, Jun 14 or 28.

ii. Copyright: Date to be determined once date for E-CPS has been chosen.
ACTION: Judy will contact Christine about doing a session on copyright, and will ask about an e-books session as well.

iii. Linked data (Alison): ACTION: Susan will approach Alison about picking a date for this session.

7) Training New Staff Members
Deferred.

8) Next meeting March 28, 2013.

 


April 18, 2013